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Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.

Ben Horowitz

A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Ambition Communication Mistakes
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver

Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.

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